River Horse have sent us in an awesome preview of their upcoming Spidertank for their Terminator Genisys miniatures game. See what you think of it squaring off against John Connor. I don’t think that he’s going to be able to take it down…

As you can see it’s one very impressive miniature. I love the design of the legs and the amount of guns they are also bringing to bear. The front of the Spidertank, with the rather smooth looking ‘face’ looks quite odd but is indeed in line with the design.

It’s great to see some big vehicles coming to the game. It would be good to hear from the community whether or not they are still playing the game and if they have expanded upon the base game with more troops and vehicles.

What do you think of the Spidertanks design?

"I love the design of the legs and the amount of guns they are also bringing to bear..."

Very nice, would look great on my desk, so may have to get one Wonder how it compares to size to a 40k dunecrawler, could make a nice kitbash with that instead of the box on legs that you currently get

You may want to look at Robogear for some good kitbashing bits. The models are a bit derpy, but the individual pieces are great, and they’re only about $8 a throw, so you can wreck a few without wrecking your budget. Lots of it on EBay.

I’ve been absolutely loving the Terminator Genisys game and I’ve bought all the extra figures they’ve done, such as the Special/Heavy endoskeletons, the T-1000, Arnold (“Pops/the Guardian”), and John Connor. For vehicles I’ve been using some toy Humvees and a toy Bradley APC for the Resistance, while the machines got a T2 Minimates Hunter Killer Tank.

My girlfriend’s never been into wargaming (she’s more into D&D) but she’s been enjoying it too, since the Narrative Scenarios and the varied objectives give it a bit of a role-playing element, rather than simply army A fighting army B. She especially loves the mechanic where you use a Time Displacement Device to re-roll dice (either yours or your opponent’s!), and the rules say you have to come up with a story to explain how the time travel mission is supposed to change history!

Missed seeing the film at the cinema and the game didn’t really catch my attention but this looks great. The mech would look good in an Aliens vs Predator game too. I know military robots would be a colonial marines thing, but the head does have a rather ‘alien’ look to it, which would help it feel part of the universe I think.